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auto state

Good afternoon,

Reading this article on politics, I wasn´t able to grasp the meaning on the sentence: ¨between the anti-regulatory Republicans and the auto-state
Democrats, we´re outgunned.¨
Auto-state would be the same as saying self-sufficient?
Thank you for any assistance.
Betsy2010